pages tagged open-source
tychoish.com has always been a very eccentric and eclecticly focused
weblog, with posts about
knitting and
technology sharing an equal
stage with posts about
tea. Despite this eclecticism,
particularly in recently, one of my core interests and subjects for
this site is free and open source software.
Having said that, I'm not your typical open source hacker. While I
dabble in programing, I'm mostly a user experience guy. I'm interested
in how we use technology and how technology affects our lives and
thought. Most of my contributions, such as it is, to the open source
movement is in the realm of documentation, usage scenario stuff,
observation, and of course as an avid user.
In terms of the projects I use and am interested in, I've been working
with git a
lot recently, and when in need of a wiki engine, I always fall back on
ikiwiki. I'm also interested in and
am beginning to use a window manager called
awesome which is a pretty clear reflection of my interest in user
experience.
As for the larger issues surrounding open source, I'm interested in
how leadership and democracy in project organization happen and
develop, and how individuals deal with the problems that arise from
collaboration in the development process particularly surrounding
ownership and property rights. As you might imagine, some of these
thoughts can stray into the
academic, but I think it's
all pretty interesting.
And I hope you all do too; I look forward to hearing from
you
tycho garen
2 September 2008
Documentation Emergence
By
tycho garen
on 17 January 2012.
Xen and KVM: Failing Differently Together
By
tycho garen
on 20 December 2011.
Is Dropbox the Mobile File System Standard
By
tycho garen
on 18 October 2011.
Issue Tracking and the Health of Open Source Software
By
tycho garen
on 12 September 2011.
Tumble Manager
Sygn System
Packaging Technology Creates Value
By
tycho garen
on 10 May 2011.
Talk Proposals
By
tycho garen
on 6 April 2011.
The Inevitability of Open Source
By
tycho garen
on 31 March 2011.
Rule By Community
By
Sam Kleinman
on 1 February 2011.
Upgrade SBCL and SLIME
By
tycho garen
on 5 January 2011.
Against Open Stacks
By
tycho garen
on 13 December 2010.
The Meaning of Work
By
tycho garen
on 22 June 2010.
Jekyll and Automation
By
Sam Kleinman
on 8 June 2010.
Why Open Source Matters
By
tycho garen
on 20 April 2010.
Enterprise Linux Community
By
tycho garen
on 31 March 2010.
Analyzing the Work of Open Source
By
Sam Kleinman
on 30 March 2010.
If Open Source is Big Business Then Whither the Community?
By
Sam Kleinman
on 9 March 2010.
Window Sizes in Tiling Window Managers
By
tycho garen
on 1 December 2009.
Industry, Community, Open Source
By
tycho garen
on 9 November 2009.
Radicalism in Free Software, Open Source
By
tycho garen
on 4 November 2009.
Package Mangement and Why Your Platform Needs an App Store
By
tycho garen
on 3 November 2009.
The End of Reusable Software
By
tycho garen
on 27 October 2009.
The Tiling Window Manager Story
By
tycho garen
on 22 October 2009.
microsoft reconsidered
By
tycho garen
on 21 September 2009.
open source competition
By
tycho garen
on 14 September 2009.
on package management
By
tycho garen
on 13 July 2009.
dweebishness of linux users
By
tycho garen
on 10 June 2009.
canonical freedom and ubuntu one
By
tycho garen
on 28 May 2009.
adventures in systems administration
By
tycho garen
on 26 May 2009.
free project xanadu
By
tycho garen
on 19 May 2009.
database market
By
tycho garen
on 13 May 2009.
new awesome
By
tycho garen
on 11 May 2009.
why tiling window managers matter
By
tycho garen
on 8 May 2009.
Cooperatives, Competition, Openness
By
tycho garen
on 6 May 2009.
jaunty upgrade
By
tycho garen
on 4 May 2009.
An Open Letter to the Jekyll Community
By
tycho garen
on 21 April 2009.
Treating Users Like Idiots
By
tycho garen
on 17 April 2009.
Open Source Words
By
tycho garen
on 14 April 2009.
A Jekylled Weekend
By
tycho garen
on 6 April 2009.
Things to Learn in Emacs
By
tycho garen
on 1 April 2009.
Links and Old Habits
By
tycho garen
on 30 March 2009.
getting emacs daemon to work right
By
tycho garen
on 27 March 2009.
The Hard (GNU/Linux) Truth
By
tycho garen
on 23 March 2009.
Agile Writing
By
tycho garen
on 6 March 2009.
Wordpress Limitations
By
tycho garen
on 2 March 2009.
Sapir Whorf Hypothesis and Computer Programing
By
tycho garen
on 25 February 2009.
Comitting From the Bottom Up
By
tycho garen
on 23 February 2009.
org-mode snippets
By
tycho garen
on 20 February 2009.
Open Source Userland
By
tycho garen
on 4 February 2009.
Linux Emergence
By
tycho garen
on 15 December 2008.
Open Source Work
By
tycho garen
on 30 September 2008.
Awesome Window Manager
By
tycho garen
on 9 September 2008.
beasties
By
tycho garen
on 18 March 2008.
Open Source Knitting Technology
By
tycho garen
on 25 September 2007.